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  2. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    Babbage held the coin in front of a mirror, but Herschel showed how both sides were visible when the coin was spun on the table. A few days later Fitton brought Babbage a new illustration of the principle, consisting of a round disc of card suspended between two pieces of sewing silk. This disc had a parrot on one side and a cage at the other side.

  3. Hyottoko - Wikipedia

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    Distraught, the old man carves a wooden mask of the baby, the eponymous Hyottoko, and hangs it within sight of the realm that it came from, in the hopes that it might one day return. Traditional dance. Hyottoko also appears in traditional dance dengaku (田楽). He plays the role of a clown.

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Stagecraft/Terminology/List of ...

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    It used to mean the side of the stage where the prompter sat. The other side of the stage was called 'Opposite Prompt' or OP. Prop, Property: an object used in the play, from the Middle English proppe, meaning a support, not originally related to property as in ownership; does not include scenery or costumes.

  5. Silliness - Wikipedia

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    A clown with "happy face" painting. In the circus, one of the roles that clowns play is engaging in silliness. When clowning is taught, the different components of silliness include "funny ways of speaking to make people laugh", making "silly face[s] and sound[s]", engaging in "funny ways of moving, and play[ing] with extreme emotions such as pretending to laugh and cry". [7]

  6. Taikomochi - Wikipedia

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    As part of his repertoire, Ms. Downer was shocked by one particular skit – one that is a classic erotic skit. The taikomochi pretends to be talking to a pretend danna who obviously wants to have sex. The taikomochi explains that he is not homosexual, and that he is called a geisha, but the pretend danna is impatient.

  7. Clown - Wikipedia

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    A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.

  8. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    The poem was then seen as a story in the 1910s, again, with the performer called 'Grimaldi', [49] and again from the 1930s, [50] featuring a clown called 'Grock', suggested as being the Swiss clown Charles Adrien Wettach. Alan Moore's 1987 graphic novel Watchmen includes the character of Rorschach telling the story and naming the clown as ...

  9. Socratic dialogue - Wikipedia

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    The conversation is between Aloysius, who represents the compositional style of Palestrina, and his student, Josephus. George Berkeley Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous is a Socratic dialogue between two university students named Philonous and Hylas, where Philonous tries to convince Hylas that idealism makes more sense ...